Tubatulabam

The Tübatulabal people made their home in the Kern River Valley of the southern Sierra Nevada. Their name is often rendered as “pine-nut eaters”, recalling the nuts gathered in the mountains. Three closely related bands lived in the country of the river and its forks. At Long Canyon on the South Fork, a village served as a winter home until sometime between the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, one of the traces of a much older life in the valley.